Painfully bad. Don’t watch if you’re even remotely familiar with hunting or survival skills. This movie gave me actual second hand embarrassment for the director.
There’s so many things that are just absolutely ridiculous or just a plain lack of attention to detail on the directors part, but my top three favorites are below in no particular order.
1) the entire movie, a supposedly seasoned fur trapper, wife, and 13 year old kid act terrified of a lone wolf. One, solitary timber wolf. Seriously?????!!!!!!! Wolves are pretty lethal in packs, but they’ll only come near humans unless it’s the dead of winter and they’re STARVING. And a single wolf is hardly a deadly threat to three healthy humans armed to the teeth living in a forest where there is clearly an abundance of game. So. DUMB.
2) In one scene, the wife comes across a cute fluffy bunny caught in one of their traps in the woods. It was Thumper. No seriously, it was. I’m pretty sure when they were making the movie someone borrowed their kid’s pet rabbit from the backyard hutch as a prop. I LOL’d. This lil fluff ball used in the movie was so clearly a domesticated rabbit, it looked about as similar to a wild rabbit as a poodle does to a fox.
3) The wife tells the daughter she’s never skinned a deer before and then asks the daughter to show her how it’s done. This lady is literally in the business of skinning animals and the family lives off wild game. Yet somehow she’s never killed and skinned a deer? Get the hell outta here.
There’s like 145688 other things that are whack with this movie…